Join Britain's most celebrated gardeners on a series of personal journeys to the gardens that have inspired their lives and work. A host of experts - among them Christopher Lloyd, Nigel Colborn and Dan Pearson - reveal the places and techniques that have contributed to the evolution of their philosophy of garden designs and planting.
Each singles out one garden for in-depth treatment and for specially commissioned photography by Vivian Russell. For Penelope Hobhouse, an Italian Renaissance garden is an enduring source of inspiration and for Stephen Lacy the eccentricity of Portmeirion is intriguing, Anne Swithinbank's passion for gardens is nurtured by "breathing spaces", and Christopher Lloyd's by the creative energy they generate. Mirabel Osler take the reader to a garden which flows into the undulating landscape of the Napa Valley.
Vivian Russell's breathtaking photographs captures the beauty and diversity of the experts' own gardens as well as of the wide-ranging sources of their inspiration. These images, combined with eloquent writing, make 'Gardens Of Inspiration' a unique and revealing experience and a book to plunder for its hundreds of inspiring ideas.
